Spinster (noun): A woman beyond the typical age of marrying with little likelihood to do so.
A crueler name disguised in polite society could not have been created for our historical romance heroines....

For the uninitiated, the stepsibling trope involves illicit romance between stepsiblings. What could be more dramatic and angst ridden then two unrelated teenagers forced to fight their hormonal urges...

This past spring, I talked about heroines that made sacrifices for their family in What We Do for Love: Sacrificing Heroines from Higgins, Carr, and More so it only seemed fair that I chat about the...